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Creator: By John L. Hick, Dan Hanfling, Matthew K. Wynia, and Andrew T. Pavia
Subject: Treatment & Care
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-03-05
Description: The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and resulting disease state COVID-19 pose a direct threat to an over-burdened U.S. medical care system and supporting supply chains for medications and materials.Conservation strategies: This resource contains recommendations facilitating conservation of equipment and supplies during contingency (expected shortages) and crisis (known shortages) capacities and should not be applied as guidance when conventional capacities are available.
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Creator: Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2006-03-31
Description: The VA Pandemic Influenza Plan has been created to guide VA in protecting staff and Veterans during a pandemic. It is part of VA emergency plans to help all parts of VA with preparation, response, and recovery stages of an influenza pandemic. -
Creator: Utley, Martin, Christina Pagel, Mark J. Peters, Andy Petros, and Paula Lister.
Subject: Treatment & Care
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2011-01
Description: The 2009 H1N1 pandemic reinforced the need for a planned response to increased demand for critical care. -
Creator: Fink, Sheri L.
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2010
Description: Demand for critical care resources could vastly outstrip supply in an influenza pandemic or other health emergency, which has led expert groups to propose altered standards for triage and resource allocation. -
Creator: Guest, T., G. Tantam, N. Donlin, K. Tantam, H. McMillan, and A. Tillyard.
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2009-10-09
Description: We assessed the impact of a United Kingdom government‐recommended triage process, designed to guide the decision to admit patients to intensive care during an influenza pandemic, on patients in a teaching hospital intensive care unit. -
Creator: Madad, Syra, Joshua Moskovitz, Matthew R. Boyce, Nicholas V. Cagliuso, and Rebecca Katz.
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-03-16
Description: Over the past century, society has achieved great gains in medicine, public health, and health-care infrastructure, particularly in the areas of vaccines, antibiotics, sanitation, intensive care and medical technology. -
Creator: Hick, John L., and Paul D. Biddinger.
Subject: General
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-03-25
Description: How sad that the people who remember the last major pandemic — influenza in 1968 — are the primary victims of today’s. -
Creator: Tuite, Ashleigh R., Victoria Ng, Erin Rees, David Fisman, Annelies Wilder-Smith, Kamran Khan, and Isaac I. Bogoch.
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-03-26
Description: In December, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) emerged in Wuhan, China, causing a pandemic that continues to spread globally. -
Creator: Dean, Natalie E., Pierre-Stéphane Gsell, Ron Brookmeyer, Forrest W. Crawford, Christl A. Donnelly, Susan S. Ellenberg, Thomas R. Fleming, M. Elizabeth Halloran, Peter Horby, Thomas Jaki, Philip R. Krause, Ira M. Longini, Sabue Mulangu, Jean-Jacques…
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-04-02
Description: Conducting trials of novel interventions during infectious disease emergencies, such as the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, is increasingly recognized as important for determining the efficacy of potential vaccines and therapies. -
Creator: Brett-Major, David M., Elizabeth R. Schnaubelt, Hannah M. Creager, Abigail Lowe, Theodore J. Cieslak, Jacob M. Dahlke, Daniel W. Johnson, Paul D. Fey, Keith F. Hansen, Angela L. Hewlett, Bruce G. Gordon, Andre C. Kalil, Ali S. Khan, Mark G.…
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-03-30
Description: The optimal time to initiate research on emergencies is before they occur. However, timely initiation of high-quality research may launch during an emergency under the right conditions.